[felideon]

Right, the headline gave the appropriate context for the interview in a short sentence. Not everyone knows Kernighan created awk, as opposed to a respected person that happens to have opinions on awk.

[Gormo]

AWK's name is actually an initialism of the last names of its three creators: Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.

[usr1106]

Aho, one of the authors of the dragon books. When I studied CS 40 years ago it was given standard literature on compiler construction, a mandatory course.

No idea whether it is still used today. Well, no idea whether there is anything fundamentally new in compilers such an old book would not cover.

[ryangs]

Indeed, still in use. Also presumably the Aho of the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.

[funemployd]

There are plenty of advanced compiler techniques, but you can't understand them until you understand the fundamentals. There will always be a place for the purple dragon book.

[usr1106]

Ah, it's purple now. It was green when I studied, became red before I graduated. When I search for it now the thumbnails look unfamiliar.